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SR 5                                                                                                                          
The Resources Committee considered SENATE RESOLUTION                                                                            
NO. 5 Requesting that the North Pacific Fishery Management Council                                                              
take action to reduce the quantity of Chinook salmon bycatch in the                                                             
Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea trawl fisheries by setting new limits in                                                          
the Gulf of Alaska trawl fisheries and lowering the existing limits in                                                          
the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea pollock fisheries to at least half of                                                         
the current limits, and recommended it be replaced with                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
          CS FOR SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 5(RES)                                                                                   
          Requesting that the North Pacific Fishery                                                                             
          Management Council take action to reduce the                                                                          
          quantity of Chinook salmon bycatch in the Gulf of                                                                     
          Alaska and Bering Sea trawl fisheries by setting new                                                                  
          limits in the Gulf of Alaska trawl fisheries and                                                                      
          lowering the existing limits in the Gulf of Alaska and                                                                
          Bering Sea pollock fisheries to at least half of the                                                                  
          current limits; and requesting that the North Pacific                                                                 
          Fishery Management Council require that                                                                               
          participants in those trawl fisheries take part in the                                                                
          SeaShare program and encourage that edible bycatch                                                                    
          from the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea fisheries be                                                                   
          provided to Alaska residents.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Signing do pass: Senator Giessel, Chair; Senators Micciche, Dyson,                                                              
Fairclough.                                                                                                                     

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The following fiscal information was published today:                                                                           
     Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Senate Resources Committee                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
The resolution was referred to the Rules Committee.